Ancient category: 10855 books
Arete
Greek Sports from Ancient Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female...
A History of Ancient Egypt
From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of the pyramids. Famed archaeologist John Romer draws on a lifetime of research to tell one history's greatest stories; how, over more than a thousand years,...
Cracking the Egyptian Code
The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In 1799 Napoleon's army uncovered an ancient stele in the Nile delta. Its inscription, recorded in three distinct scripts--ancient Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic--would provide scholars with the first clues to unlocking the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs, a language lost for nearly two millennia....
by Richard Henry
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
What would you do if you knew the government kept secret information about advanced ancient technology and Atlantis hidden away from the public? Don't you think the public deserve to know if the lost advanced civilization of Atlantis really existed? Author of "A Guide For Writing Hip Hop Lyrics"...
Black Genesis
The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Presents proof that an advanced black African civilization inhabited the Sahara long before Pharaonic Egypt
• Reveals black Africa to be at the genesis of ancient civilization and the human story
• Examines extensive studies into the lost civilization of the “Star People” by...
Lost Knowledge of the Ancients
A Graham Hancock Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Thinkers at the forefront in alternative theories on history, the origins of civilization, technology, and consciousness
• With contributions by Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, Mark Booth, Richard Hoagland, Robert Schoch, John Anthony West, and others
• Topics range from quantum philosophy...
Greek Buddha
Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334–324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha shows how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of Pyrrhonian...
How to Build Egyptian Boat Models
Patterns and Instructions for Three Royal Vessels
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The ancient Egyptians were avid model makers. Many of their miniature masterpieces were replicas of boats, lovingly handcrafted from the finest woods and often decorated with rich materials such as ivory. Amazing examples of Egyptian maritime art and technology, many of these models remain intact...
Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors
An Activity Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Children can try their hand at re-creating ancient Israelite culture-along with the cultures of their neighbors, the Philistines and Phoenicians-in a way that will provide perspective on current events. The book covers a key period from the Israelites’ settlement in Canaan in 1200 B.C.E. to their...
Thorns in the Flesh
Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In such narratives, health and illness might signify the sanctity of the ascetic, or invite consideration of a broader theology of illness....
by Stephan Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The gods of Ancient Egypt conjure up images of hieroglyphs with animal-headed people, fantastic civilizations, and a past that seems both unimaginably distant and still tenuously connected to the present day. Although the names Ra, Anubis, and Isis still linger today in modern fiction, the truth about...
by E. A. Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Legends of the Gods originally published in 1912 by Egyptologist Alfred Wallis Budge. It also includes the Book of the Heavenly Cow, or The Legend of the destruction of mankind, an Ancient Egyptian text thought to have originated during the Amarna Period and, in part, describes the reasons...
by D. G. Hogarth
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A fascinating look at ancient Eastern history, from the Babylonian Empire to the conquest of the East by Alexander, written by British archaeologist and scholar David George Hogarth of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.
by Elizabeth Payne
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were
also lost. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt explains how archaeologists have pieced together...